The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 53

“Certainly,” exclaimed the Bengal Light, who was now in better spirits; “that is only common sense.”

Who acts: Bengal Light, that · What happens: exclaim, be · To what, where: better spirits, common sense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bengal Light, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 exclaimed	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Light	det
7	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Light	compound
8	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spirits	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 spirits	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spirits	cop
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 spirits	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 spirits	case
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 spirits	amod
15	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Light	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 sense	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 sense	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sense	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 sense	advmod
21	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sense	amod
22	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 sense	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 sense	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the Bengal Light and better spirits				certainly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Bengal Light and better spirits		better spirits	now		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	that	common sense				tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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